A Few Hummers

bret

The hummingbirds were out in full force yesterday, buzzing a long row of Jewelweed. There must've been at least 15-20 of them zipping all over the place. The Jewelweed nectar has a very high concentration (40%) of sugar so all these ruby-throats had white bills from the sugar crystals. It's like Hummingbird Cocaine to them.










Canon 5D2, 400 f/5.6L

-bret

dadwtwins

Love good hummingbird shots and these are great.

Mark Edell

Very nice indeed. The first one rocks!!

rhondavid

WOW these are great. I have been working hard to get some decent Hummer shots and have come up well short of what you have shared here. Those little boogers are just so fast.

Thanks for sharing these

bret

Here's a couple more I took yesterday.
The first is a full-size crop showing the sugar crystals coming out of the jewelweed bloom.







-bret

Photosbychuck

WOW , the most I have ever seen is two in the same area.
How far away was you from them & what lens did you use?



Thanks,
Charles

Wiren

Ouch!
I cut my eyes on some of these! Very nice shots - this kind of crap keeps egging me on to move up from my Oly E-3 to the 5d2, just need the financing for that and that lovely 400mm lens! # 1 & 3 are my faves!

GoofBckt

Me too! Very nice!

rhondavid wrote:

WOW these are great. I have been working hard to get some decent Hummer shots and have come up well short of what you have shared here. Those little boogers are just so fast.

Thanks for sharing these